"I know all that!"
"Hehe... I knew it. Brother Chu Chen wouldn't be so cruel!"
Hayate smiled and hugged the small Vita beside her, rubbing against her as Vita's cheeks reddened slightly.
"Wah... Hayate, stop rubbing against me. It's so ticklish!"
Vita was somewhat unaccustomed to it and instinctively pushed Hayate away.
"By the way, Brother Chu Chen, if you just wanted to surprise Vita and the others, there was no need to call us over too, right?"
Nanoha tilted her head, her face full of curiosity.
If they were only here to witness it, there was no need to call Fate and her over. Wouldn't Hayate alone have been enough?
Wasn't this sort of thing something Chu Chen could handle on his own? Why did Fate and she need to come as well?
So, Chu Chen must have called them over for something else...
"That's right. I called you here this time mainly because of the upcoming training, and to train all of you as well!"
As he spoke, Chu Chen turned his gaze toward Signum and the other three before him.
"Now that your connection to the Book of Darkness has been severed, the four of you have returned to the stage where you can grow stronger simply through training. However, you're too strong. In this world, aside from Nanoha and the others, no one can serve as your training opponents. But if the three of them use their full strength, it will probably trigger another high-level Dimensional Tremor, so—"
"Then we need a new training method..." Signum instantly understood what Chu Chen meant.
"Hey, isn't that something I, the instructor, should be thinking about? Brother Chu Chen, you're actually stealing my job!"
Nanoha immediately became dissatisfied. You were just an honorary instructor, so why were you stealing